Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jefff@locus.com (Jeff Fields) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: "Christian" Rock Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 07:21:56 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California Lines: 49 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ASC105@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > > Christian rock is a hot new style very fitting for the times of today. One >of the most dirtiest tricks of Satan is decieving people into social movements >that go against God's plans. Satan can usually succeed when God's people do >not know and are not grounded in the Word of God (The Bible). . . . > Time and time again, "Christian" rock has mocked the Bible through >disobeying it. > First of all, Christian rock uses the same styles and hard rocky drum >beats as its secular counterpart. If I had not known English and I listened >to that American "Christian" rock trash (!) of today I would have just >recognized it ordinary rock music because that's just what it is. The Bible >tells us not to be like the world (1John 2:15-16, James 4:4), but "Christian" >rock copies secular styles. Rock music style is based on pride and rebellion >against godly authority. It is equivalent to witchcraft (1Samuel 15:23). >There is no such thing as a "good" rebellion. Christian rock rebels against >God by being so much like the world in its style. Remember that it was not >the rocky, harsh, "Let's-Party-For-Jesus," music that drove the evil spirit >away from Saul, but it was David's SOFT harp music that made it leave >(Samuel 16:23). Then let's dump gospel music, Bach's and Handel's orchestral music as well. These styles of music are not soft harp music. These styles were at one time controversial, as is Christian rock is today. For example, gospel is based on Afro-American spiritual music of the 18th and 19th centuries. The black spiritual style has its roots in African tribal music. Do we reject gospel music because its style is rooted in a non-Christian source? When Bach and Handel first composed their masterpieces of orchestral music in honor of God, they were rejected by a group who only recognised the Gregorian chant as an acceptable music style to worship God. They took the position that orchestral music was unnacceptable because of its secular origins. They also saw it as rebellion against the Church. To reject the Christian rock groups solely for stylistic reasons is ludicrous. Look to the message behind the style, before rejecting a piece of music as Satanic. Look to the hearts of the musicians before calling them spiritual rebels. Many people have come to know the Lord through rock music. My sister was first attracted to the Lord through "Jesus Christ Superstar." She is now a born-again Christian, and although she sees J.C.S. as a secular piece, she believes that it was instrumental in her first being turned on to the Lord. -Jeff Fields